Improvement in ice-pitchers



E. A. PARKER.

Ice-Pitchers.

Patented May 6,1873.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDMUND PARKER, OF WEST MEBIDEN, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN ICE-PITCHERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 138,686, dated May 6,1873; application filed April 16, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDMUND A. PARKER, of West Meriden, in the county ofNew Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement inIce-Pitcher and I do hereby declare the following, when taken inconnection with the accompanying drawing and the letters of referencemarked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same,and which said drawing constitutes part of this specification, andrepresents in-- Figure 1 a vertical central section, and in Fig. 2 avertical central section of the lining and upper portion detached.

This invention relates to an improvement in the pitcher for whichLetters Patent were granted to me July 9, 1872, and numbered 128,810.

In that patent the shell of the pitcher was of a tapering form, thelining being of an equal diameter, or less than the diameter of thepitcher, at the neck, and could only be applied to a certain class ofpitchers, the object of the invention therefore could not be carried outin that class of pitchers in which the lining is made of a largerdiameter below the top--that is, in that class of pitchers which are ofa swelling or oval form vertically.

The object of this invention is to apply this improvement to thislast-named class of pitchers, whereby the same advantages inconstruction may be attained-that is, the burnishing or finishing of thebody of the pitcher in the lathe; and my invention consists in dividingthe body transversely at that point in its height where the internaldiameter is slightly larger than the greatest external diameter of thelining, the upper portion of the pitcher having the handle and spoutattached thereto and provided with a bead at its lower edge, (or thebead may be in the lower portion,) the said upper portion, handle, andspout secured to the lower portion by screws or equivalent device, asmore fully hereinafter described.

A is the shell of the pitcher, in outline of a usual form. Bis thelining; C, the handle; D, the spout; and E, the cover.

As practiced before my invention the pitchers were made complete andthen their outer surfaces finished; the handle and spout prevented thefinishingof the surface in the lathe, hence that Work was done by hand.

In my patent, before referred to, I made the handle detachable entirely,and the lining and spout, of an equal diameter, attached to a neck to beset onto the upper edge of the shell; but in the class of pitchers shownin the illustration such construction is impossible, because thediameter of the neck of the pitcher is less than the largest diameter ofthe shell.

In this class of pitchers I divide the body transversely so far belowthe top, as at a, that the diameter of the shell at that point will belarger than the diameter of the lining. To this upper portion F thehandle C is attached, and the spout D and cover E, and at the dividingline a a bead is formed upon one part to overlap the other and cover thejoint between the two, so that the part F with its attachments may beset onto the lower portion, as in Fig. 1, and secured thereto by screws(1, or their equivalents. In consequence of this construction thatportion of the shell below the dividing line a may be placed in thelathe or other machine for finishing.

I claim as my invention- In that class of pitchers in which the liningis of an increasing diameter toward the bottom, dividing the shell at apoint below the top, where the internal diameter of the shell isslightly larger than the largest diameter of the lining, and providingone part with a bead at the joint, and attaching the handle and spout tothe upper portion, so that by means of the said handle and spout the twoparts are secured together, substantially as set forth.

EDMUND A. PARKER.

Witnesses: V

ORVILLE H. PLATT, JAMES P. PLAIT.

